According to the incident report, officer Joshua Smith was dispatched to the scene, where he met with the victim, who had called 9-1-1 back while Smith was en route to say his wife “possibly had a machete.” Smith found the husband outside in the driveway and he told him his wife was inside “somewhere.”

Officers entered the home with the husband’s permission and Mrs. Allen met them. She was asked to step out on the porch and show her hands, which she did. She told Smith and another officer that their dispute is ongoing because her husband just got a new job and is constantly calling her names. Smith could smell alcohol on Allen and he asked her if anyone had put their hands on anyone else during the argument tonight, to which she replied, “no, not yet.”
Her husband, who was still outside in the driveway, said he was lying down in bed while his wife was in the living room watching TV, when she began to come down the hallway throwing things and telling him that she was going to “kill him tonight with the machete.” He stated he grabbed the items in his wife’s hands to keep her from throwing them at him and pushed her down the hallway with his chest so he could get away from her. There was no mention of a machete being found in her possession.

Other incidents on file recently included:

•A woman on Chandler Road reported that she has an ongoing problem with someone hitting the side of her house and walking around in her yard. She said she had no idea who it is but is in fear for her life.

•A man on Drake Woods Road reported that someone came onto his property overnight and stole a dead Interstate Econo battery from a ditch witch.

•A man on Foote McClellan Road reported that a Miller welder/generator had been stolen from his property by cutting the lock off his gate.

•A man on Glenn Carrie Road reported that his estranged wife had taken his vehicle to Atlanta to pay someone she owed money to and then not returned it. He said he spoke with her by phone and asked her if she was going to return the vehicle and she said “maybe.”

•A man on Johnson Bridges Road said a man who offered to build him a new shop if he could have some of the scrap from his burnt barn had not returned since he hauled off the scrap and tools. He said the man does not answer his phone calls.

•Simple battery was reported on Forest Lane after officers responded to a domestic dispute there. A woman there said her brother was “running his mouth about the condition of her home” and when she confronted him, an argument ensued. She said that during the argument, her brother threw a trashcan and struck her in the back of the head.

•A man on Johnny McElroy Road reported that someone stole his shotgun issued to him by Jackson County law enforcement, along with other items. He said the last time he remembered seeing the items was in December.

•A manager at Amedisys said the business continues to receive harassing and invasive phone calls from individuals that call from several numbers. She said the man is always “very determined” and always insists on speaking with the same employee and harasses other employees for personal information about her, including her Social Security number.

•A woman on Hwy. 72 West reported that someone has been taking half her mail out of her mailbox, including child support payments, medical cards and other papers.

•A man on Sherwood Circle reported that a woman he knows pulled up in his yard, got out of her vehicle and stated she needed someone to take her to get some dope. He said he told her to get off his property or he was calling the law. He said she has already been issued with a criminal trespass warning.

•A man came to the sheriff’s office to report that a handgun and two cell phones were taken from his vehicle while he stopped at Food Mart on Hwy. 98.

•A woman on Country Lane reported that someone broke into her home and stole her Lortab. She said she believes it is her granddaughter and her friend, who she thinks has stolen her medication before.

•A woman on Shoal Creek Road reported that someone slashed all four tires on her Ford Focus and she believes it was her ex-husband because she filed a case with Child Support Recovery lately.

•A woman on Madison Boulevard reported that another woman she knows recently took some information of hers from a friend’s truck and she has since learned the woman used the information to open accounts and file a tax return.

•A man on Old Wildcat Bridge Road reported that an a/c unit had been stolen from a foreclosed home.

•Officer Justin Hanley reported that he failed to remove the gas nozzle from his patrol car, causing a piece of the gas hose to be pulled apart. No damage was done to the patrol car.

•Theft by receiving stolen property and burning woodlands and brush were reported on Tabor Chapel Church Road. A man on a tractor told deputy William K. Elrod that he saw smoke rising from the woodline and went toward it, observing two white males and a white female burning material on the ground outside the tree line. The Shiloh VFD was called to extinguish the fire, which turned out to be copper wire. The vehicle the trio were in was described as a white extended Dodge ½ ton truck.

•A man on Roger’s Church Road reported that a man he had obtained a warrant on for stealing his class ring had been calling him repeatedly saying if there was a warrant on him he was going to come to his house and beat him up.

•A woman on Holman Autry Road reported that someone has been taking her mail. She said she does not get some billing statements and some of her payments are not received.

•Arson is suspected in a vehicle fire on Shoal Creek Road.

•A woman on Rock Quarry Road reported that someone had rolled the trees in her yard and put toilet paper and eggs in her mailbox.

•Officer Jeffrey Strickland responded to the report of a small child walking in the road on Hwy. 72 East near Carlton Grocery. Strickland found the child in the parking lot of the grocery store. The child was described as a white male, five years old, wearing only a pair of dirty socks and shorts. He said he has stayed next door the night before. Strickland found the child’s mother asleep at the residence in a rear bedroom with her boyfriend. Strickland noted that she appeared to be inebriated. She admitted the child was hers but said that she did not know he was in the road. Strickland also noted the woman was covered in sores and bruises. The case was turned over to DFCS and the child was given to the woman’s mother for her to care for him. Warrants were to be issued on the mother for reckless conduct.

•A woman on Sawdust Road reported that a friend of hers who came to visit stole some jewelry from her. Warrants were issued for her arrest.

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